this is a 15-year-old kid or 20-year-old kid smoking three pods a day. they can't stop. they're addicted. my son will say, i'm sorry, we're running out of time. thank you very much for the information and the concern appreciated. >> dana: fox news alert. hurricane dorian could hit florida as a category 4 storm with winds 140 miles an hour. while dorian is still days away from the mainland, they point to a life altering impact. i'm dana perino and this is "the daily briefing." but first the justice department inspector general releasing an scathing report on james comey saying the former fbi director violated agency policy in mishandling of memos on president trump and set a, quote, dangerous example for bureau employees.

yet despite the findings, the doj declining to prosecute. john roberts is live from the north lawn. john? >> reporter: dana, good afternoon. the doj's inspector general, michael horowitz, taking a blow torch to james comey for his decision to leak information from memos that he had written about his interactions with president trump. one of those memos, the so-called memo number four, comey shared with a friend of his, daniel richman, with instructions to share the contents but not the actual memo with "a new york times" report. he khaft taoeuzed the former director saying, quote, comey violated fbi policy. comey made public sensitive investigative information related to an on going fbi investigation. comey was not authorized to disclose the statements that he attributed to president trump. the inspector general concluded that comey showed poor leadership writing, quote, what was not permitted was the

unauthorized disclosure of sensitive investigative information obtained during the course of fbi employment in order to achieve a personally desired outcome. that personally desired outcome, of course, being the appointment of a special prosecutor, and that was to look into the russia investigation and whether or not president trump had any part in it. admits all of the damning findings about his conduct, including the missing documents. comey found vindication in this line of the report. the ig wrote, we found no evidence that comey or his attorneys released any of the classified information contained in the report to the members of the media. comey took to twitter writing, quote, i don't need a public apology from those who defame me, but a quick message with a, sorry we lied about you, would be nice. comey tweeting, quote, to all of those who talked about me going to jail or being a liar, ask

yourself why you still trust people who gave you bad info for so long, including the president. still no reaction to this from president trump or from the white house. we did hear from senator lindsey graham about this, who in a statement said the inspector general's report is a stunning and unprecedented rebuke of a former director of the fbi. this is the first of what i suspect will be several ugly and damning rebukes of the senior doj and fbi officials regarding their actions and bias toward the trump campaign of 2016. because don't forget, dana, this inspector general's report was just one of two. there was another one that is on going that will be coming out soon looking into the genesis of the russia investigation and whether the fisa court and surveillance system was abused at all to spy on the trump campaign of 2016. dana? >> dana: thank you, john roberts. let's bring in james trusty, former doj prosecutor. you know the fbi. you've been involved in the

justice department for many years. you're in private practice now. i wonder what you think about this. let me just give you a little bit from the report. the ig saying comey provided a separate copy of memo four to rickman who was one of comey's attorneys and also a close personal friend. rickman all served as a special government employee at the fbi during a portion of the time comey was fbi director. comey instructed richman to share the contents of the memo but not the memo itself with a specific reporter for "the new york times." get your thoughts on that. >> that's the part that drives me nuts. i mean, look, this is the director of the fbi. the ig, if anything, glosses over this point. they don't make as much hay out of it as they could. he has basically designated his friend, a college professor, to leak to "the new york times" to come access material information that the fbi that nobody el can see. he literally sets up his own

press agent within the fbi. and when he is losing his job as director, which is a very expected outcome in the transition to a new administration, he goes through his friend, the special employee. that part of it is just so different than law enforcement than i'm used to for 25, 30 years that it kind of still sticks in my craw. >> dana: tell me about this idea of a personal memo and, you know, personal memo to me would be like if he makes a list of things that you need to do. like, don't forget to give jasper his heart and tick medicine. that might be on the list of other things you to do. don't forget to call karl later. but those aren't secret memos. right? >> that's the thing. as director of the fbi, he has the authority to classify material. this is somebody who knows this stuff cold. he knows the difference between official records and personal documents. personal documents are literally what you're talking about. you're at the fbi. your spouse calls. you say, oh, yeah, i got to get

groceries and you write that down. that's literally it. anything that has to do with work is an official document. >> dana: how did he try to split that? it's not even really splitting a hair. there's a pretty stark difference. >> look, this is kind of like the one-man prayed he's leading today to celebrate this. it is literally narcissism to sit there and say as the director of the fbi, hey, these were personal memoirs. these were my own personal documents. there's no such thing. certainly these documents don't come close to qualifying this. this is the thing that brought him down, thinking the rules are for other people. >> dana: why do you think the department of justice declined to prosecute? >> partly it's the subject matter of the leaks. if you're talking about information that's got foreign agents killed or had american spies that were imprisoned in foreign countries based on the types of information he was capturing, it would have a different flavor to it. these are much more mundane, if sensational topics that were not

leaked hand over fist to other folks. and so i think it's in the area of prosecution discretion. there may be prosecution that comes from that. doj already said we're not going to do it. it fits into the category, you can do a lot of stupid things in life but not necessarily get pursued criminally for it. >> dana: you can all do things like wearing your wake forest tie today. don't think i didn't notice. you're a big fan of wake forest. we appreciate you coming on the show today, jim trusty. turning now to hurricane dorian as forecasters warn it could be a monster category 4 storm when it hits the mainland possibly over the labor day weekend. the storm rolling through the caribbean, collapsing roads and causing power outages on some islands. puerto rico dodged a direct hit, but one 80-year-old man died while preparing for the storm. it is now eyeing florida's east coast, as the state's governor urges residents to be prepared.

>> the time to act is now. if you haven't acted, act to make preparations. do not wait until it's too late. if you prepared and then don't end up getting affected, no harm no foul. if you don't prepare, that may be something difficult to recover from. >> dana: rick leventhal is at the hurricane center. >> reporter: i think a lot of florida will be impacted by this. it's looking like it will be moving slowly. that means a lot of people getting a lot of rain. talking about a pretty widespread flooding event from this. this is the storm way out here still. kind of headed toward the bahamas. north of puerto rico about 230 miles or so at this point. this is an infrared image of it. the center of it pretty well intact. 85 miles an hour sustained winds still a category one storm. pressure's been dropping. when the pressure drops,

eventually, usually the wind speed will go up correspondingly. we haven't seen that just yet. because the pressure's dropping, we think it will happen. the models that we talk about are becoming much better in line, much more in agreement than what we saw yesterday. you look at these tightly clustered lines here heading toward central florida. that's the centerpiece of it. eventually it will make a right hand turn. does it make its way back to the other side of florida, maybe somewhere across the peninsula? probably still too early to say. these are two primary models. just see that red and green. they're still probably 60, 80 miles apart but they're getting closer. then after that, they kind of take this right in turn. that was the first image i showed you was monday. this is wednesday. not much distance for this center of this storm between monday and wednesday. that means it's a long duration event of a lot of rain and wind event that we'll kind of initially see. officially category 3 by tomorrow is what the national

hurricane center is saying. officially they're saying category 4 potentially. so we could have -- once you have that strong a storm it usually vacillates from three, four, maybe back down to two, but enough time that that strong of storm will have enough to bring a storm surge. that's going to have massive impacts to the eastern seaboard of florida. that really slow turn here means the very long duration rain event. i think pretty much everybody in florida is going to get something. maybe not the panhandle. but everybody else getting something from this. >> dana: rick from the fox weather center, thanks. the search is on for a couple facing murder charges. how they escaped from a prison van. and another suspicious death at this va hospital now being investigated as a homicide. details ahead. great news for veterans with va loans. mortgage rates have dropped to near record lows. refi now at newday usa with no income verification, no appraisal, and no points.

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>> dana: federal investigators are probing a second homicide in a string of suspicious deaths at a west virginia va hospital. doug mcelway is live from washington. >> reporter: pressure is growing ton veterans administration to resolve this investigation now that a second patient at the va hospital in clarksburg, west virginia, is a confirmed homicide it. it happened after the body of george nelson shaw was all e ebg humed and was found to have four injection sites, according to usa today. the paper reports the family was notified last month that each needle mark contained traces of insulin. shaw did not have diabetes. his family pulled the paper that over the course of a few weeks he had gone from good health, actually going bowling, to being admitted to hospice care. injections into a nondie beatic can cause death. shaw is the second confirmed

homicide. yesterday we reported that 82-year-old army vet felix mcdermott's body was also exhumed with an injection in his abdomen. the hospital staff began to notice unexplained outbreaks of hypoglycemia in nine patients. senator manchin said he was made wear of the abnormalities in july 2018. >> we were told there was a concern they had and it was an incident they had taken care of. an investigation with the inspector general, where it's supposed to be, and we would be notified. we never heard anything else. >> reporter: speaking on fox news in the last hour, the va secretary said that he is frustrated with the inspector general. >> it is time for the inspector general, who is not controlled by me or the white house, to finally end this investigation, to answer the question that our

grieving families have. it's been far too long. >> reporter: as we reported yesterday, a person of interest has been identified. that person no longer works at the hospital. >> dana: what is holding up the inspector general's report? >> reporter: we don't know. the most recent statement said we cannot kphepb comment further. the person of interest is no longer working at the hospital. >> dana: all right, thank you. manhunt is under way for an escaped arizona couple accused of murder. police say blaine and susan darksdale overpowered guards while in a transported vehicle. they were last seen in a small utah town monday. we are following this from our west coast news room. this sounds wild and troubling that they could do this to the guards. >> reporter: i just got off the phone with a u.s. marshal and got an update on what happened.

here's what happened. the barksdales are in their 50s. these people are accused killers. they're going to be transported from new york to arizona for extradition. not by plane with an armed sheriff, which is typical, but by a private security firm. with two individuals with no law enforce phpbment training. they faked a medical emergency in utah. they overpower the guards, tie them up, lock them in the van with a third inmate who said i don't want any part of this. they have a friend in the area. they borrow his truck, a red gmc truck. now they are on the lamb. let me give you back story about how these people came to be fugitives, if you will. they're wanted in the killing, alleged killing of fire house in tucson. individual in that house died. then they escaped to new york upstate new york where they were found by police. so this whole thing of

transporting with a private security firm is now very controversial because a lot of agenciy ies don't have the moneo put on the marshal service, hire them, or send their own deputies by plane or charter because commercial airlines don't like to do it anymore. here's a sound byte from the victim's son in tucson about this whole ordeal. >> we can't believe that this thing happened. the transport company, i mean, they really screwed up big time. somebody didn't follow protocol. that's why this happened. >> reporter: just ended the contract with the transport company. they will be under major review. obviously, controversial. these people are now on the lamb. >> dana: and possibly dangerous. thank you for that report. alexandria ocasio-cortez taking

some heat for saying how she thinks millennials stack up against previous generations. you'll want to hear that up next. tv just keeps getting better.

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their predecessors. i think that they are actually care about other people's experiences and lives. >> dana: alexandria ocasio-cortez making that claim about her fellow millennials, praising them as profoundly courageous and more willing to puncture taboos than older generations. joining me national political reporter for real clear politics. it's great to have you here. it's pretty interesting. i wanted to play this other sound byte from her. this is how she talks about how her generation is maybe better because they're willing to do something that she thinks other generations didn't do. i don't know. watch. >> i think this new generation is very profound and very strong and very brave because they're actually willing to go to the streets. how about that? >> dana: kind of a surprise to people who marched in the civil rights movement. let me get your take on it. you are a millennial. you are a youngster yourself.

i'm all for flattery of your own generation, but what do you make of this? >> this is very interesting. alexandria ocasio-cortez hasn't said whether she thinks millennials are the greatest generation or where they fit in the sort of rankings here. any criticism of older americans is very interesting, especially when you remember that older americans over the age of 65, they're the key makers of america. this is a very powerful influential voting bloc. they can decide at any moment who is the party that they prefer. that's why joe biden right now is in first place in the democratic primary. any criticism that would sort of rub off from alexandria ocasio-cortez onto the eventual democratic nominee, that could be very troublesome come next november. >> dana: because she's making a longer term play. eligible voters in 2018 ages 53 and younger, 135 million. compare that to 94 million baby boomers. difference there being, of course, older people tend to be

more reliable voters indeed. i also wanted to ask you about this. younger people do tend to like bernie sanders. an activist had this list of all the things that a sanders government would want to take over. your energy choices. how about where you live? how you power your house? what kind of car you drive? your health insurance. everything about your teachers. what do you think about that and how she basically represents a lot of what he wants and are they trying to meld thissaling to so that other people should be worried about that. >> older generations will say it as an insult to say democratic politician wanted to meddle in life from cradle to grave. now that's bernie sanders platform. generations like mine who see alexandria ocasio-cortez as a champion, they're very attracted to that. bernie sanders is promising free helcare, free college. he wants to guarantee a $15 minimum wage, guaranteed job

when full employment occurs and more. this is what democratic socialism looks like. what's important to remember here is it doesn't matter whether or not bernie sanders wins the nomination, whether he eventually ends up in the white house or back in the senate because who ever is the democratic standard bearer in 2020, they're going to be duty bound to campaign on some of these issues. and if they win, to try and implement some of them. >> dana: is there anybody that is a counter politically to aoc that is doing the same type of outreach in the way that she is, like she's utilizing instagram stories, for example. is there anybody on the conservative side that's doing the same? >> there are a lot of conservatives trying to unlock what she has done, figure out how they can connect with younger generations. dan crenshaw from texas is very good with the instagram, twitter. he's gotten that figured out. i don't think there is a conservative who is able to sort of take this and package it in such way that it's gotten the

viral appeal that her arguments have. i think it's one of the reasons that the message that conservatives are pushing right now is it boils down to one of individual responsibility. that's a harder sell. >> dana: right, indeed. also interesting about how you sell that to the generations. philip wagman, we appreciate having you on. >> yes, ma'am. >> dana: hurricane dorian is intensifying as it heads towards the southeastern united states. we'll talk to the mayor of one florida city who's keeping a close watch on the storm. ♪

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>> dana: florida braying for impact from hurricane dorian. forecasters predict it could make landfall this weekend as a category 4 storm. my next guest is the mayor of one city that could be right in dorian's path, the mayor of jacksonville, florida. sir, i know this is probably nothing new to you, but how worried are you about this

potential landfall? >> this is our third here in jacksonville in four years. we're in preparation mode. even though it's shifted slightly to the south over the last day, we're still in a cone where we would expect tropical storm winds and could have an evacuation if it stays on the track that it's on now. so we're encouraging people to know their evacuation zone. right now they can go to an app called jax ready.com. buy water, batteries, supplies. be prepared on the front end. then we have to evacuate in the next 48 hours. >> dana: how do you, as a leader of your city, try to make sure that people take the government's warning seriously? i know there are people that are like, we've been through this many times before. we've been fine. how do you strike that balance? >> well, if we get to an evacuation, i state with great clarity, very directly, that if you don't leave in a zone that's evacuated and we're in the middle of a storm or even post storm, there may be a period of

time where rescue can't get to you because it issen safe for them. the storm we had two years ago, sop folks evacuated. i did post storm cleanup. the folks i visited with said they'd never make that mistake again. most people take it seriously and want to help their neighbors and understand when we say go, you have to go. >> dana: tell me about how the government, county governments, city governments, state government and federal government, how important it is that everybody work together. the coordination with florida has been very good. >> it has been very good. i was with the governor yesterday. i'll be with him again today 4:15 p.m. we coordinate on everything if there's an evacuation, roads, bridge closures, reopening bridges and making sure we have access to the dollars to help people while we're working with the federal government and fema. great relationship with the governor and his team and the

president and his team. >> dana: at what point would you have to make a decision on an evacuation? how quickly would people need to get out? >> well, right now on this course, it looks like we could have tropical storm early monday would be the severest tropical storm winds. if we were going to evacuate, we would probably start in the 48 hour range. you're looking potentially sometime saturday morning or midday saturday. but again, it's all contingent on the speed and the direction of what this storm does. >> dana: how do you monitor? what does it look like in your control room? >> oh, 24 hours now we've activated it. fire and rescue personnel, the sheriff's office, nonprofits, public works, city employees. we do regular briefings. my last briefing i had directly was at 10 a.m. this morning. i'll have another one in a couple of hours. the school board, the school superintendent. all our utility, our port, our

military. everybody's in a room together. people that make decisions. we practice this year round. it's not the first rodeo when you get into a crisis situation. >> dana: mayor lenny curry, hopefully everything goes smoothly. thanks and good luck with the storm. >> thank you. >> dana: "the new york times" under attack for updating a story on the tea party movement saying the tea party didn't get what it wanted but did unleash the politics of anger. left wing critics saying it left out references to race and racism, the times then changing the story then tweeting we have updated this story assessing the policy failures of the tea party movement ten years after its life to include attacks on president obama. this comes after another editorial following backlash over a headline on president trump's response to the shootings in el paso and dayton.

the headline was changed to assailing hate but not guns. joining me now is maryanne marsh former adviser to john kerry. i just want, let's start with you, alex. i just remember the tea party really coming out of frustration born out of spending during the bush administration and that congressional leadership, and then the financial crisis really be frustrated. how do you remember it? >> i remember it that way as well. it was fiscally oriented. it was not a social movement. it was a movement about the fiscal policies in the context of, yes, the financial crash in 2008, but then also the big stimulus bill that barack obama pushed after he had been elected, and obamacare, which was all very expensive. people were worried about the deficit for the first time. pulling up a story i thought was

a fair.which is that fiscal responsibility is not a big priority amongst congressional republicans despite all the successes of the tea party. it was not about race. so why the editors felt compelled into skwrebgt the sentence about the racial attacks after the fact that it was already, i thought, a very good story and really weakened the whole story was a disservice to the journalist, but also to the readers. >> dana: almost as if the saying the tea party failed wasn't enough, maryanne. it was that it failed. let me have you talk. you might remember all of this differently as well. >> no, i actually remember it the way you do but for one exception. you and alex are both right. the tea party was committed and became a political force because they were opposed to deficits and bailouts. if that's the case, they should be in the streets today. >> dana: i know. >> they should be out there like they were in 2009 and 2010. they are not. they became a force when barack

obama became president. yes, anyone can go on google and find examples, unfortunately, of racist behavior, but they became a force when barack obama got elected president as the first african-american president in the country, yet the common denominator today is everyone is still trying to undo obama care. but their fiscal policies, they have just given up on them. you have to ask the question, why aren't they out there now? >> dana: i know. that's a fiscal story. they are out there and it is a curious thing. one of these days somebody will come home to roost. i don't know who it will be. i did want to ask you about this. an economist from hawaii. she's been running for president. she's not going to make the debate stage in september. she had this to say last night. >> the whole process really lacks transparency. >> right. >> people deserve having that transparency because, ultimately, it's the people who will decide who our democratic

nominee will be and who our next president, commander in chief will be. and when you see that lack of transparency, it creates, you know, a lack of faith and trust in the process. >> dana: maryanne, do you think there's been a lack of transparency on behalf of the dnc? >> when you're molosing, you complain about the rules. for her to complain about lack of transparency is disingenuous. the premise is you have to -- you have to qualify 2% in public polls. they're public polls. what part of that do you not see? the donations are public as well. the political leaps, how is andrew yang and the yang gang a political elite? he made the political stage and she didn't. i think it's sour grapes on her part. >> dana: she all said she wondered would she launch an independent run? she has said she has ruled that out. that's good news for the democrats. >> probably. but, look, at this point, she's

a zombie candidate. i think any candidate who is still running campaign but isn't on the debate stage, they're not going to win. their campaign is effectively over. they are zombie candidates at this stage. the senator from new york, gillibrand credit for recognizing she's not going to win the nomination, let's stop wasting people's time and money and she can get back to being a senator and dropped out. more democrats should realize that and drop out. >> dana: do you expect more democrats to drop out especially now that we know they're not going to make -- there's no more candidates that are going to make that debate stage? >> yes, they should. if you're gabbert and want to keep your congressional seat, she should have done it yesterday. >> dana: is she in jeopardy of losing her congressional seat? >> yes, she's got a democratic primary. >> dana: thank you so much maryanne and alex. thank you. reaction to the trump

administration policy that changes the automatic citizenship of some u.s. service members and government workers. jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon to explain all this to us. jennifer? >> reporter: dana, the announcement sent shock waves through the military and caused many here off guard. the head of u.s. citizenship and immigration just tried to clarify the change. >> this does not affect the children of whether they be government employees or military members who are u.s. citizens born abroad. the only people this affects are those who are not u.s. citizens when they're born. for instance, the children -- say the child's mother who marries a service member who's a citizen, for instance. >> reporter: to become a citizen, he said those children of service members need to establish residency in the u.s. the surprise announcement set off a lot of eye rolling from those government officials who

now must field calls from concerned military families whose children were born on bases overseas. the pentagon issued the following statement to clarify the new policy, which it estimates will affect just a few hundred people. quote, dod has been working closely with colleagues at dhs, us cia regarding recent policy changes and understands the estimated impact of this particular change is small. however, we are committed to ensuring effective families are provided the appropriate information, resources and support during this transition. on capitol hill, reaction was swift. house speaker nancy pelosi tweeted, quote, america's service members and diplomats abroad are among our nation's best, yet at real donald trump is launching an attack on their families, putting in doubt the citizenship of their children born overseas. the shameful policy must be reversed immediately. the president has said his administration is looking at ways to reverse birth right citizenship, which is different from what they've done

yesterday. many think this is a small step toward that, however, dana. >> dana: all right, jennifer griffin at the pentagon, thank you. democrats are reportedly alarmed over a failure to reach voters in the key battleground states that carriied president trump t victory in 2016. should they be worried? i'll ask karl rove. be sure to check out my podcast "i'll tell you what." it's available for download on i tunes or wherever you listen. we trust usaa more than any other company out there. they give us excellent customer service, every time. our 18 year old was in an accident. usaa took care of her car rental, and getting her car towed. all i had to take care of was making sure that my daughter was ok. if i met another veteran, and they were with another insurance company, i would tell them, you need to join usaa because they have better rates, and better service. we're the gomez family... we're the rivera family... we're the kirby family, and we are usaa members for life. get your auto insurance quote today.

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>> dana: florida bracing for hurricane dorian, nasa is giving us a look at the storm from space. forecasters say dorian is gathering strength and could hit florida as a powerful category 4 storm this weekend. pretty cool view. there's word now democratic officials are sounding the alarm

over the party's inability to reach voters in key midwestern states. according to the reporting, quote, after pledging to compete everywhere ahead of the next election, multiple dnc members told the daily beat they have privately sounded alarms about the organization's strategy heading into 2020 emphasizing what they view as chairman's inability to reach swing voters in battleground states who voted for the president. that reporting by hannah schroeder. joining me is karl rove. take a look at this map. you've probably memorized it. it's a matter of county by county. red versus the blue there. dnc, people worried they're not going to be able to reach the voters they need to reach. what are you hearing? >> well, i thought it was a very busy, interesting bit of reporting. i was in ohio recently and it's clear the republicans there are

organized and active, and aggressively canvassing and moving towards the 2020 election. and in the "daily beat" article, one of the person quoted as saying we're getting carpet bombed by the republicans. that the republicans have more energy, more activity under way. it is -- >> dana: saying unity and even more money than they did four years ago? >> oh yeah. part of this is, the democrats still have a contest. republicans don't. republicans are free to focus their energies and efforts on the 2020 general election. yet we've got 20 some odd democrats, ten of them on a debate stage, four, five or six of them serious, fighting it out for the nomination. it won't be until next april, may, june before the democrats settle their contest, if they don't -- they may not even settle it until the time they meet at their convention in

milwaukee. in the meantime, the republicans have the advantage of being able to focus on the race. the rnc is raising a lot of money and that's being seen in the dephroeupl of a lot of organizers, lot of field people, lot of voter i.d. on the republican side. and the democrats are still talking to each other. >> dana: when the democrats sound alarms like this, does the dnc have enough time to turn things around? >> well, they have time, but i'm not certain they have the resources. perez turned out to be a dismal fund-raiser. i don't think they've paid off their debt from the 2018 elections. and the republicans have a significant war chest and are continuing to deploy their resources based ton availability of that money. so, there's plenty of time, but my sense is the democrats are set where they are until they're not selected. think about this. if you were in michigan or ohio or pennsylvania and you're a democrat, are you more concerned about the things that you need

to do for the november general election by talking to swing voters or are you more concerned about getting your favorite nominated for the democratic nomination? the answer is obvious. the emphasis inside the democratic party among activists is let's pick our nominee. and that means that the trump campaign has an open field when it comes to swing voters, at least in the states where there's party registration. there's a little different play in states that don't have party registration for primaries, open states like texas and new hampshire, where independents can go to either party. in some instances they're using big data to identify independent voters who might be inclined to vote in the democratic presidential primary. by and large, democrats are behind the eightball when it comes to organization in these battleground states because they're focused on the internal dynamics. >> dana: i wanted to ask you, the democrats are looking at the census process saying now that we have another open seat in georgia with the retirement of

senator isaacson and senator doug collins considered taking a look at it. do the democrats have any hope of taking back the senate in 2020? >> well, they could if the republicans are complacent about it. republicans, if they lose four seats, lose the senate, if they pick up alabama, which i think there's a general expectation that if they lose five seats that they now hold, they could be at risk. there's six republican seats that they are considered problematic. arizona, colorado, iowa, maine, new hampshire, and potentially georgia. now i think we have a second georgia seat. that means seven teams that are in play. it will be interesting to watch. governor kemp gets to appoint somebody to that seat. question is whether he apoeurpo a caretaker or someone who gets elected. who ever gets elected in 2020, they have to run again in 2022. >> dana: if you run for that contest you know you're running

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>> dana: one of the biggest names in vaping now the target of a federal investigation. the fcc is looking to whether juul engaged in deceptive marketing. mike tobin has more. >> the pressure is ratcheting up on e cigarette and vaping manufacturers, particularly juul. bloomberg is now reporting citing anonymous sources that the ftc is looking to whether that company, juul is targeting kids. the e-cigarette manufacturers are under fire because they use flavors like cotton candy and

bubble gum. the u.s. secretary of health and human services says there's an epidemic of vaping with 50% increase in high schoolers and middle schoolers using the product. >> we're going to use every tool we have to prevent this epidemic continuing. we'll stop vaping for youths. >> and juul wrote an op-ed saying their market is for one billion of those already hooked on nicotine. juul does not use flavors that are not in traditional cigarettes. >> dana: thanks, mike. a huge plume of smoke and ash billowing out of a volcano in stromboli in the mediterranean. people are in their boots

reporting it. no injuries. alex trebek has finished chemotherapy and back at work and getting ready for the 36th season of the game show. he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in march. here's shep. >> shepard: it's noon on the west coast. 3:00 on the east coast where forecasters say hurricane dorian could become a powerful category four storm by the time it hits somewhere on the east coast of florida or georgia. the fox extreme weather center tracking the very latest. i'll ask the mayor of miami how his team is getting ready. also, a justice department watch dog says james comey violated the fbi policies on his memos about private conversations with president trump. but the former fbi director will not face criminal charges. and he says an apology would be nice. plus, we're hearing the military has ruled yet another death of a veteran at a v.a.